When is a Facebook Really a MySpace?

A friend of mine asked me for some help on Facebook. He couldn’t figure out who his secret crush was. Even after installing the application and inviting the requisite number of friends to continue, he still couldn’t find his answer. He franticly wanted to know.

I checked it out, and, as I suspected, there was in fact nobody with a crush on my friend. Instead, there was a spammy application that was able to trick him into entering some personal information.

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